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Be yourself on your own terms — that's what diversity really means
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AUTHOR Lionel Shriver recently said something along the lines of all a bland, middle-class writer has to do to get published is to be a bland, middle-class writer. That degree’s not wasted, she’s not wrong.
Meanwhile, poetry’s own Bullingdon Club has been wearing diversity like Derek Smalls wears a tinfoil-wrapped cucumber. When you realise that the black authors they’re pointing to on their prize list have already been successful with US publishers, you have to ask yourself, who was it that took any risk there? No snark at the authors, they’re fine writers.
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